Tag Archives: history

A Coast Salish Mausoleum, 1864

Posted on December 27, 2013 by

“Grave House” is one of those archaeological terms which render slightly creepy a feature that is more or less an everyday experience: the mausoleum, a house for the dead, filled with coffins. This is a fascinating image I hadn’t come … Continue reading →

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Images of Nootka Island People, 1787

Posted on December 14, 2013 by

I found some interesting images at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. These come from a book published in 1787: Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples, volume 4: Americas by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810).  Needless to say, … Continue reading →

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Happy “Birthday”, Vancouver

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

The City of Vancouver had its 125th anniversary yesterday, and the local press was full of reflective pieces on civic leaders, famous visitors, notable crimes and, of course, sports.  Well, it would be churlish not to wish Vancouver Happy Birthday!  … Continue reading →

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Historic Newspaper Archive on Google

Posted on November 3, 2010 by

Via the Northwest History blog, I recently found that Google has been quietly archiving a large number of  historical newspapers, including many defunct ones from the west.  Old newspapers are a rich source of social history and can fill in … Continue reading →

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Newsflash: Facebook is Good for Something

Posted on September 28, 2010 by

I’m a bit of a reluctant user of “facebook”, mostly because of their user-hostile and byzantine privacy policies.  However, increasingly people are using its easy interface to create really useful web pages, many of which you don’t need to be … Continue reading →

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Spatial History Mapping Project

Posted on September 22, 2010 by

If you’re at all a map geek – and most archaeologists have that tendency – then you might enjoy flipping around Stanford’s Spatial History Mapping Project. This project is intended to further creative visual analysis and representation of historical events … Continue reading →

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“From the Islander” blog

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

The Hallmark Society sponsored a nice blog called “From the Islander” through the summer of 2010.  This is a retrospective set of commentaries about excerpts from the weekend newspaper insert “The Islander”, which used to be published in the Victoria … Continue reading →

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